Tropescilloscope: Mundane Made Awesome

Ordinary, mediocre and everyday tasks made EPIC. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Oh, Crap! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Annoying Younger Sibling Does Not Like Shoes Playing Gertrude Shut Up, Hannibal! Meaningful Echo Even Evil Has Standards Revenge Slashed Throat Fire-Forged Friends Rape as Drama Black and Gray Morality Famous Last Words Hoist by His Own Petard Greater-Scope Villain Needs Wiki Magic Love The Casanova Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Fan Disservice Conspicuous CG Immune to Bullets Mr. Fanservice Implacable Man "Shaggy Dog" Story Wrong Genre Savvy Breaking the Fourth Wall Call-Forward Say My Name Sports Stories Heel–Face Turn Big Brother Instinct Credits Gag Armor-Piercing Question Authority Equals Asskicking Honor Before Reason Sexy Discretion Shot Darkest Hour The Remake The Ace The Big Guy Crucified Hero Shot Hidden Depths Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Ominous Latin Chanting Damsel in Distress Logo Joke Stepford Smiler The Vamp Silent Movie Imagine Spot Heel Realization Never Found the Body Establishing Character Moment Amoral Attorney Department of Redundancy Department Antagonist Title Dark Reprise The Un-Reveal Those Two Guys Fate Worse than Death Zombie Stories Red Shirt Documentary Kill 'em All Spiteful Spit Closed Circle Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Belligerent Sexual Tension Comically Missing the Point Scare Chord Disappeared Dad Visual Pun O.O.C. Is Serious Business Big "NO!" The Hero Dies He Who Fights Monsters Mama Bear Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Dressing as the Enemy Same Language Dub Groin Attack Refuge in Audacity One-Man Army Adaptational Villainy Catapult Nightmare Babies Ever After Pyrrhic Victory Vitriolic Best Buds The Stoic The Lost Lenore The Place Black Best Friend He Knows Too Much Neck Lift Alliterative Name Arranged Marriage Cool Shades Narrator Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Catch-Phrase Sadistic Choice The Ghost Anguished Declaration of Love Creepy Child Off with His Head! Animal Title Index War Is Hell Race Against the Clock Action Genre Mexican Standoff I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Science Fiction Films Silence Is Golden Vomit Indiscretion Shot Slasher Movie Unspoken Plan Guarantee Punny Name Adaptation Name Change Hollywood Darkness Hollywood Law Boom, Headshot! Blatant Lies Light Is Not Good Ship Tease Meet Cute Deadpan Snarker Training Montage Yandere Russian Films Homage Protagonist Title Dirty Coward Action Survivor Throwing Your Sword Always Works Canadian Movies Becoming the Mask Psychopathic Manchild Rich Bitch Novelization Children Are Innocent Those Wacky Nazis Retirony Double Entendre Setting Update Adults Are Useless Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Sanity Slippage Unresolved Sexual Tension The Alleged Car Fun with Acronyms Contrived Coincidence Drill Sergeant Nasty Determinator More Dakka Word of God Flipping the Bird Anti-Hero Abusive Parents Cruel and Unusual Death Genre Throwback Diabolus ex Machina Take a Third Option Gender Flip "The Reason You Suck" Speech Recycled IN SPACE! A God Am I Action Girl Amusing Injuries This Is Gonna Suck Well-Intentioned Extremist Funny Foreigner Deliberately Monochrome Black Dude Dies First Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Blood Knight The Quiet One The '90s Camera Abuse Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Badass Bookworm Didn't Think This Through Pragmatic Villainy Butt-Monkey No OSHA Compliance Bloodless Carnage Anti-Villain Bury Your Gays Jerkass Has a Point Big Damn Heroes Cool Old Guy Evil Counterpart Auto Erotica Eldritch Abomination Crazy-Prepared Loophole Abuse The Mafia As Himself The Brute Fourth Date Marriage Costume Porn Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Match Cut Did Not Get the Girl Motor Mouth Guile Hero Sir Swears-a-Lot No Antagonist timeperiod Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Ironic Echo Downer Ending Ass Shove My Greatest Failure Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Artistic License – Biology Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Lancer Poor Communication Kills Cain and Abel Kubrick Stare Married to the Job Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Obviously Evil As the Good Book Says... Curb-Stomp Battle Intrepid Reporter Not Using the "Z" Word Gold Digger Bare Your Midriff Cat Fight Up to Eleven Important Haircut Anachronic Order Overly Long Gag Red Oni, Blue Oni Adaptation Dye-Job Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Unusually Uninteresting Sight World of Ham The Musical Scary Black Man Eyepatch of Power Foregone Conclusion Rousing Speech Left the Background Music On Villain Song All There in the Script Faux Affably Evil Break the Cutie Easily Forgiven Took a Level in Jerkass Advertised Extra Beware the Nice Ones The Stinger Properly Paranoid Meaningful Name Anachronism Stew Redemption Equals Death Mythology Gag The Cavalry My Beloved Smother The Atoner Manchild Malevolent Masked Men Screw This, I'm Outta Here! I Need a Freaking Drink Politically Incorrect Villain Sci-Fi Horror As You Know Laughing Mad Every Car Is a Pinto Break the Haughty Monumental Damage Creative Closing Credits Stealth Hi/Bye Your Cheating Heart Shower Scene The Stoner Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Suspiciously Similar Substitute Heroic BSoD Bolivian Army Ending Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Together in Death 20 Minutes into the Future Final Girl No-Sell Fingore Ambiguous Disorder Japanese Films Extreme Doormat Totally Radical Idiot Ball Bullying a Dragon Deconstruction Hero of Another Story Age Lift For the Evulz Let's Get Dangerous! Better to Die than Be Killed Broken Aesop Italian Films Hero Antagonist Stuff Blowing Up Serious Business In Medias Res Thriller Historical In-Joke Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Animal Motifs Kick the Dog Disney Death The Bully Be Careful What You Wish For Vampire Fiction The Smurfette Principle Nice Guy Even Evil Has Loved Ones Star-Crossed Lovers Smug Snake Bar Brawl The '50s Cool Car Beard of Evil Reality Ensues Plot Hole An Aesop Rule of Funny Despair Event Horizon Soundtrack Dissonance Foreshadowing Double-Meaning Title Dark Is Not Evil What Happened to the Mouse? Aluminum Christmas Trees Stock Footage Undying Loyalty Gilligan Cut No Celebrities Were Harmed Video Credits Curse Cut Short Cassandra Truth Early-Bird Cameo Martial Arts Movie Police Brutality Framing Device Manipulative Bastard Punch-Clock Villain Grievous Bottley Harm Dumb Blonde Mooks Biopic Jump Scare Laser-Guided Karma Spanner in the Works Room Full of Crazy Four-Temperament Ensemble Hair-Trigger Temper Failed a Spot Check Evil Brit Historical Hero Upgrade Danny Peary Cult Movies List Gory Discretion Shot Reasonable Authority Figure Kill It with Fire Dramedy Scenery Gorn The Load Evil-Detecting Dog Alas, Poor Villain Evil Plan Unusual Euphemism Pragmatic Adaptation Here We Go Again! Happily Married Mind Screw Death of a Child Leaning on the Fourth Wall Adaptational Attractiveness Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Author Appeal Not What It Looks Like Race Lift Only One Name Bring My Brown Pants Mercy Kill The Starscream Improbable Weapon User Eagleland Facial Horror Whole Plot Reference Flashback Epic Movie Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Cowboy Cop Artistic License – Military Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Made of Iron Stalker with a Crush Horror Comedy Super Strength The Power of Love Brainless Beauty Awesome, but Impractical Dual Wielding "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue It's All About Me Bilingual Bonus Obfuscating Stupidity Karmic Death Character Development Adorkable Taking You with Me Eiffel Tower Effect Shown Their Work Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Reveal The End... Or Is It? Romantic Comedy Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Psychological Thriller Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome She Cleans Up Nicely Meaningful Background Event Handicapped Badass Have a Gay Old Time Romantic False Lead Random Events Plot "Awesome McCool" Name Bound and Gagged Attempted Rape Film Noir Index No Name Given The Ditz Eye Scream Epic Fail Unreliable Narrator Villain Opening Scene An Axe to Grind Show Within a Show Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Index of Film Westerns The Dragon Fantastic Racism Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Male Frontal Nudity Smoking Is Cool Never My Fault Exactly What It Says on the Tin Daylight Horror Deal with the Devil Film Noir Ascended Extra Rule of Symbolism Villain Protagonist Big Bad Duumvirate Bottomless Magazines Only a Flesh Wound Bond One-Liner Cool Old Lady Fake Shemp Historical-Domain Character Running Gag All Men Are Perverts The Chessmaster And the Adventure Continues Casting Gag Insane Troll Logic Dark and Troubled Past Jitter Cam Posthumous Character The Film of the Book Based on a True Story Almost Kiss Getting Crap Past the Radar The Dreaded Fainting Ambiguous Ending Shipper on Deck Leave the Camera Running Adaptational Heroism Obstructive Bureaucrat Reality Is Unrealistic What You Are in the Dark I'm a Humanitarian Love Triangle Bad Boss Death by Adaptation Mighty Whitey Big Fancy House Irony Evil Is Petty Shirtless Scene Insult Backfire Twist Ending Ax-Crazy Humiliation Conga Bad "Bad Acting" Mad Scientist Leitmotif Corpsing Does This Remind You of Anything? Adult Fear Decoy Protagonist Storming the Castle Fanservice Red Right Hand Slap-Slap-Kiss Film Series Guns Akimbo Captain Ersatz Rated M for Manly Retired Badass Red Eyes, Take Warning Mood Whiplash Adaptation Distillation Betty and Veronica Our Vampires Are Different Darker and Edgier After the End Blood from the Mouth Ghost Fiction Parental Incest Calling the Old Man Out Get Out! Brick Joke Genre Savvy From Nobody to Nightmare Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Ungrateful Bastard Rule of Three Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Genre Shift Celebrity Paradox Manic Pixie Dream Girl Dying Moment of Awesome "Well Done, Son!" Guy Loads and Loads of Characters Chase Scene Action Prologue Call-Back Faking the Dead Award-Bait Song Lampshade Hanging Animated Credits Opening Heroes Want Redheads Enemy Mine '80s Hair The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Chewing the Scenery Male Gaze Jerkass Improbable Aiming Skills Once More, with Clarity! Dropped a Bridge on Him A Father to His Men La Résistance Cold-Blooded Torture Bloodier and Gorier Car Fu Funny Background Event Rasputinian Death Superhero Sassy Black Woman Blackmail Dramatic Irony Madness Mantra Jerk Jock Skewed Priorities Bald of Evil Karma Houdini Corrupt Corporate Executive Pre-Mortem One-Liner Kids Are Cruel Ms. Fanservice Actually Pretty Funny The Hero Green-Eyed Monster Chekhov's Skill How We Got Here Face–Heel Turn Extremely Short Timespan Air-Vent Passageway Cool Guns Actor Allusion folderlabel Fiery Redhead Exact Words Mugging the Monster Villain with Good Publicity Five-Man Band Only in It for the Money I Did What I Had to Do Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Bad Guy Wins Affectionate Parody The Alcoholic Too Dumb to Live Only Known by Their Nickname Naked People Are Funny Missing Mom Wham Line Lock and Load Montage Apocalypse How Empathic Environment Lighter and Softer Cluster F-Bomb Pet the Dog Put on a Bus Affably Evil Slasher Smile Country Matters Precision F-Strike Batman Gambit Knife Nut Mystery and Detective Films Early Installment Weirdness Wounded Gazelle Gambit All Girls Want Bad Boys Artistic License – Physics Creator Cameo Artistic License – Geography Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Small Name, Big Ego Shout-Out Sinister Minister Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Papa Wolf Hell Is That Noise Dies Wide Open Demonic Possession Tagline Asshole Victim NO INDOOR VOICE Badass Grandpa Knight Templar Mundane Made Awesome Fatal Family Photo All for Nothing Anyone Can Die Badass Longcoat French Films Pretty Little Headshots It's Personal The Sociopath Sequel Hook Frame-Up Hooker with a Heart of Gold Pay Evil unto Evil Sequel Escalation Truth in Television The Smart Guy Coming-of-Age Story Death Seeker Public Domain Feature Films Moment Killer Rule of Cool Ripped from the Headlines Chiaroscuro Drugs Are Bad I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bland-Name Product German Films Paper-Thin Disguise Wicked Cultured Make It Look Like an Accident A Minor Kidroduction Suddenly SHOUTING! Peek-a-Boo Corpse As Long as It Sounds Foreign Disney Villain Death From Bad to Worse In the Back Fish out of Water Due to the Dead Older Than They Look Evil Is Hammy Spiritual Successor May–December Romance Mistaken for Gay Retcon Dramatic Gun Cock Everyone Has Standards Fanservice Extra Evil Laugh Off-into-the-Distance Ending Real Life Reckless Gun Usage Deliberate Values Dissonance Our Zombies Are Different Last-Name Basis Femme Fatale There Is No Kill Like Overkill Re-Cut Badass Boast Gone Horribly Right I Have Your Wife Dutch Angle Brutal Honesty The Voiceless Horror Films Death by Irony Alpha Bitch The Great Depression Parental Abandonment Pretty in Mink In Name Only Spared by the Adaptation Central Theme Badass Normal Defiant to the End Eureka Moment Men Are the Expendable Gender You Killed My Father Disproportionate Retribution Big Eater Expository Hairstyle Change Christmas Movies Index You Have Failed Me Trailers Always Spoil Artistic License – Gun Safety Woman Scorned Crazy Jealous Guy Disguised in Drag Major Injury Underreaction Captain Obvious Very Loosely Based on a True Story Drives Like Crazy Card-Carrying Villain Broken Pedestal Arc Words All Just a Dream Beauty Is Never Tarnished Toplessness from the Back Overprotective Dad Line-of-Sight Name Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Large Ham Not So Stoic Your Head A-Splode Covers Always Lie The Cameo Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Henpecked Husband Accidental Murder Gorn Villainous Breakdown Tranquil Fury My God, What Have I Done? The Chick Time Skip British Films A Date with Rosie Palms No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Adapted Out Really Gets Around Noodle Incident Sole Survivor Adaptational Badass Market-Based Title One-Word Title Broken Bird Improvised Weapon Dark Action Girl Music Stories Real Life Writes the Plot Heroic Sacrifice Nothing Is Scarier Man on Fire Good Is Not Nice Title Drop Token Minority Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Drowning My Sorrows Canon Foreigner Bavarian Fire Drill Dogged Nice Guy Interrupted Suicide Depraved Bisexual The Dog Bites Back Australian Movies Distracted by the Sexy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Rewatch Bonus Spell My Name with an "S" Naïve Newcomer Not So Above It All You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Scenery Porn The '80s Villain Ball Berserk Button Works Set in World War II Black Comedy Rape Straight Gay Abhorrent Admirer The Faceless Offscreen Teleportation Only Sane Man And Starring Big-Bad Ensemble A.I. Is a Crapshoot Chekhov's Gun Stylistic Suck Informed Ability Names to Run Away from Really Fast It Can Think Pimped-Out Dress Instant Death Bullet Defrosting Ice Queen Hope Spot The Mole B-Movie Big Bad Chekhov's Gunman Intergenerational Friendship Freudian Excuse True Companions Took a Level in Badass Deus ex Machina Not Quite Dead The '70s Dull Surprise She's Got Legs Badass in a Nice Suit Self-Deprecation Sacrificial Lion Domestic Abuse Psycho for Hire Agony of the Feet Arch-Enemy Evil vs. Evil Unwitting Instigator of Doom Black Comedy Bittersweet Ending Combat Pragmatist Historical Villain Upgrade Would Hurt a Child Driven to Suicide Determinator aka: The Determinator Author Avatar Love at First Sight Adaptation Expansion Death by Sex What the Hell, Hero? N-Word Privileges Death Glare Bloody Hilarious Morality Pet Tempting Fate Cat Scare Fat Bastard MacGuffin Fatal Flaw Never Trust a Trailer Composite Character Heterosexual Life-Partners Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Mr. Exposition Television Movie Index One Steve Limit And I Must Scream No Ending Non-Indicative Name Cloudcuckoolander Crapsack World Daddy's Girl Police are Useless Product Placement Hong Kong Films Face Death with Dignity Wretched Hive Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Translation Convention Taking the Bullet Reality Has No Subtitles Victoria's Secret Compartment Grey and Gray Morality For Want of a Nail Stealth Pun Bond Villain Stupidity Would Hit a Girl Hypocritical Humor Serial Killer The Oner Freeze-Frame Bonus BFG Vomit Discretion Shot Bi the Way Destination Defenestration Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Back from the Dead Vacation Films Redshirt Army Worthy Opponent Insistent Terminology Camp Gay Offscreen Moment of Awesome Plucky Comic Relief Wham Shot Half the Man He Used to Be Made of Explodium Bunny-Ears Lawyer Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Artistic License – History Dissonant Serenity Aside Glance Gratuitous English Big Applesauce Nice Hat Sealed Evil in a Can Book-Ends Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Gainax Ending Foil Neck Snap Expy You Have Outlived Your Usefulness It Will Never Catch On Tap on the Head Manly Tears Parental Neglect Woman in White Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Continuity Nod Evil Sounds Deep Humans Are Bastards The '60s Bowdlerise Maybe Ever After All There in the Manual Suspiciously Specific Denial Jerk with a Heart of Gold Body Horror Hate Sink Take That! Ambiguously Gay No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Roaring Rampage of Revenge Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Kick the Son of a Bitch Hypocrite Dirty Cop Military and Warfare Films Fantasy Films Dwindling Party Shell-Shocked Veteran The X of Y Accidental Misnaming An Arm and a Leg Demoted to Extra Earn Your Happy Ending Not So Different Outrun the Fireball Riddle for the Ages Bait-and-Switch Red Herring Beta Couple Developing Doomed Characters Soft Glass Dirty Old Man Friend to All Children Artistic License – Law Killed Mid-Sentence Parental Substitute Those Two Bad Guys Brother–Sister Incest